Design for Revolution

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What's this all about? Observation and interaction Priorities and distractions Design ideas

Ongoing observation stage, last updated 8 June 2008  Latest addition     Latest link

 

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Links & References

Green Links & References,
Comments & miscellaneous

Who can we work with? (23/12/07)

Materialism, science and scientism (WiC 14/8/05) 22/12/07

Beyond the Life of Brian – Sectarianism and the Left 11/9/07

Socialism and Spirituality 2 2/4/07

‘Marx’s Vision of Sustainable Human Development’ by Paul Burkett 11/1/07

Engels on the State 31/12/06

Extract from ‘Greenism’ 16/10/06

‘The Intellectuals’ from Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci
4/9/06

‘The poet of dialectics’ by Francis Wheen, The Guardian 8 July 2006
23/7/06

David Graeber, Preface’,
Towards an Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Own Dreams
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2002)
(Recommended at World in Common) 2/2/06

Discussion on secularism and ethics 24/5/05

World in Common beginnings 16/5/05

World in Common Justified,
by JP 14/5/05

Election as Myth 8/5/05

The military industrial complex 01/01/05

Murray Bookchin’s The Ecology of Freedom, Bookchin's vision of ‘An Ecological Society
5/12/04

Exeter Socialists discussions:
for starters:
‘Marx and Marxism’,
handout
(20 July 2004)

‘How do we achieve our objectives?’(13/9/04)
3/8/04

‘What is a United Front?’ (17/8/04) 29/9/04

‘Is veganism (part of) the solution?’ (7/9/04) 3/10/04

Is it possible to ‘green’ or ‘reform’ capitalism?
Marxist says ‘No’,
See also: Global Spin
13/9/04

Reconciling Red and Green
‘Marx’s ecology’,
John Bellamy Foster
12/7/04

Marx’s ecology in historical perspective 12/7/04

Marxism explained (4/6/04)‘The legacy of the 1960s’(19/9/04)
5/12/04

Socialism and Spirituality (21/12/04)
17/12/04

Revolutionary Humanism and the Anti-Capitalism Struggle 17/2/04
key ideas and (almost) full next of this book by Roy Ratcliffe on-line

Latest:
Swidden, the real permaculture 8/6/08

Ideology of food production 2/6/08

My library index, many on land, food etc. 26/4/08

My father’s three concerns 2/01/08

‘the end of the world show’ 16/8/07

Permaculture in New Internationalist, its Revolutionary Ethics expounded by Maddy Harland 3/7/07

Communication 6/4/07

Article on Gerrard Winstanley by George Monbiot
15/10/06

‘The permaculture club’ by Martin Hodgson, in The Guardian, July 19, 2006
20/7/07

‘The Crash’ by Patrick Whitefield 1/3/06

Permaculture Neighbourhood Design Mini-conference 5/2/06

“It’s capitalism or a habitable planet” by Robert Newman 2/2/06

Permaculture Evaluation Centre
3/1/05

Permaculture Institute of El Salvador, Annual Report 2004

Principles of deep ecology 9/9/04

What is Permaculture? 1/8/04

Design for Revolution Proposal 6/5/04

My problem with ‘permies’ 7/7/04

Did Bill Mollison produce the definitive ‘design for revolution’ 14 years ago? 2/10/04

CoBiRD
An exciting and ambitious bioregionism initiative at proposal stage.
Web site will be: www.cobird.org 16/9/04

Birthright: Land Law
9/10/04

Global Relocalization
21/9/04

Permaculture Audit
19/10/04
(first published Summer 1993)

Framework for Design for Revolution discussion / workshop 19/9/04

‘Making permaculture “mainstream friendly”’ workshop

Handout 4/9/04

Write-up 12/9/04

 

World in Common, ~200 Links 31/1/08

Renewed anarchist organization ZACF 7/12/07

Radical Anthropology Group (RAD)
Radical Anthropology Journal Issue 1 26/11/07

Revolutions Per Minute (RPM) 15/11/07

Note: a link which is Black and Green!
Escanda 4/3/07

Building an Anarchist International 4/3/07

Proposed Communist Settlement 1/12/06

Anarcho-Syndicalism, Technology and Ecology 29/11/06

What about the “Tragedy of the Commons”? Surely communal ownership will lead to overuse and environmental destruction? 31/7/06

The Red & Anarchist Action Network 27/4/06

The New Anarchists’,
article by David Graeber
5/4/06

International Endowment for Democracy 31/3/06

Solidarity economics 19/3/06

Paul Avrich is dead 25/2/06

Britain: Campaign for a New Workers Party
24/2/06

What anarchism is all about 17/2/06

‘The Communitarian Anarchism Of Gustav Landauer’, Larry Gambone 10/2/06
Extract: Landauer on The State

Anarchism and a moneyless economy 4/2/06

Internationalists Discussion Network
and Links 23/1/06

Web site of an SPGB comrade I used to know
22/1/06

Immaterial Labour In The Digital Economy 9/1/06

a. Is a moneyless economy possible? 2/12/05
b. Ideological intransigence, democratic centralism and cultism: a case study from the political left
2/12/05

Anarchist Theory 5/11/05

‘In these last days of history, the only hope we have is each other’
www.autonome.org
28/8/05

references on ‘Ethics’
24/8/05

Socialist Labor Party 5/8/05

Alliance for Green Socialism (nice web site) 14/5/05

Reform or Revolution 3/5/05

Marxist Writers 2/5/05

The Socialist Party 1/5/5

abolishmoneynow by Ernie Reynolds 24/4/05

World in Common 10/2/05

What is Social Ecology? 7/1/05

Following discussion on ‘potential abundance’ a comrade gave these links:
‘Accumulation of Capital ’ - Rosa Luxemberg;
especially Chapter 27 and
‘On Historical Materialism’ - Franz Mehring: 16/4/05

What Is Alienation? by Lewis S. Feuer 14/4/05

Exeter Socialists home page 19/2/05

Institute for Social Ecology
10/11/04

Interview with Murray Bookchin
10/11/04

ESF: Life Despite Capitalism
19/10/04

SPGB book review ?/5/00

Latest link:
Don’t give up’, Michael Pollan 7/6/08

Note: a link which is Red and Green!
Ecosocialist International Network
1/11/07

Landmatters permaculture project gets planning consent 26/8/07

Escanda 4/3/07

Good Gardeners Association 4/3/07

Path to Freedom
29/11/06

On Topsoil and Civilization 29/11/06

http://www.soilerosion.net/ 28/11/06

Sustainable Production in Active Neighbourhoods (SPAN) 1/11/06

Land and Freedom: The Diggers 18/10/06

Food First 16/10/06

‘Transition Culture: An Evolving Exploration into the Head, Heart and Hands of Energy Descent’
http://transitionculture.org/ 4/9/06

Natural Farming at Rasulia, India 12/3/06

New paradigms:
Philosophy and Science of Music in Ancient Greece: The Predecessors of Pythagoras and their Contribution’ by Graham Pont
11/3/06

After the oil crash 28/1/06

Environment, Capitalism and Socialism, online book
also
Green Left Weekly, online newspaper
14/10/05

Plants for a Future 26/10/05

The Forum for a Sustainable Zorrozaurre urban community 14/5/05

Permaculture Evaluation Centre: ecohouse and garden project 5/5/05

www.eco-southwest.co.uk
Route to permaculture discussion forum
10/11/04

Patrick Whitefield, The Earth Care Manual (East Meon, Hampshire: Permanent Publications, 2004)

Permaculture Association, Britain 30/6/04

Permaculture Magazine and Permanent Publications 7/7/04

Ecovillage Network 7/7/04

Books on land degradation

George Sessions, Deep Ecology (Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith, 1985)On ‘the male condition’ 24/11/04

www.self-willed-land.org.uk
4/10/04
Threatened ecosystems
Brazilian Cerrado
1/8/04

Sharon Beder, Global Spin: The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism (Dartington, Devon: Green Books, 2002)

Check these out
15/9/04
Cultivating Confusion 17/7/04
(first published March 1991)

Down to Earth Religion
4/10/04
(first published July 1991) Israel & Palestine discussion 6/2/05Honouring the Chicken 8/3/04

     
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Check these out

(very old list, not sure when I put it here)

www.crisispapers.org
www.buzzflash.com
www.thememoryhole.org
www.lyingsocialistweasels.com
http://www.zmag.org/weluser.htm
http://www.parecon.org/

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Books on land degradation

 

This mini-list, below, has been here since I set up this site in 2004. I’ve been indexing the books in my library as a ‘bit of knitting’ for when I have time, which isn’t often.

 

I have indexed the first bookcase-full on Land, Gardening and Permaculture. 23/8/08

 

When I do the indexing, of many books from the 1980s and 90s and some much earlier, I’m mildly surprised at how little has changed, and with new books I find myself saying: ‘I know, I know, I was trying to tell people that 20 years ago!’ I was saying that as I was reading one new book I will add now, and for me it only got interesting in the last chapter called ‘Sitopia’, about ‘solutions’, except that really there are no solutions in the pipeline, and I agreed with her that any solution will have to focus on food. In that chapter, the author mentions permaculture and the transition towns movement. In my view, those two movements with much potential have not yet got to grips with the need to research a new kind of agriculture which is really high-yielding, and they don’t recognise that capitalism has got to go if we are to save ourselves and the planet.

 

That new book is:

 

Carolyn Steel, Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives ( London: Chattor & Windus, 2008)

 

22 August, 2008

Vernon Gill Carter and Tom Dale, Topsoil and Civilization (Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1974)

Tim Flannery, The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of the Australasian Land and People (Sydney: Reed New Holland, 1997)

Johan Goudsblom, Fire and Civilisation (London: Penguin, 1994)

Andrew Goudie, The Human Impact on the Natural Environment: Third Edition (Oxford: Blackwell, 1990)

Piers Blaikie and Harold Brookfield, Land Degradation and Society (London: Methuen, 1987)

Piers Blaikie, The Political Economy of Soil Erosion in Developing Countries (Harlow, Essex: Longman Scientific and Technical, 1987)

John A. Dixon, David E. James and Paul B. Sherman, the Economics of Dryland Management (London: Earthscan, 1989)

Simmons, I G, Changing the Face of the Earth, ( Oxford:Blackwell, 1989

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